Foreign direct investment in China rose 6.7% in March to 87.83 billion yuan ($12.75 billion). In the first quarter, China attracted CNY226.51 billion in foreign investment, a 1% increase from a year earlier, according to the Commerce Ministry.

Renewables

More renewables installations were added to the world’s power supply for less money last year. But a market correction may be just around the corner. Investment in renewables, excluding large hydro projects, fell last year by 23% to $241.6 billion while the amount of new capacity installed reached the highest amount to date, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme, the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).

Infrastructure

Rising pace of urbanization in India is expected to need investments worth $20 trillion by 2040 to create infrastructure as over 70% of India’s population will move to urban areas.

Global demand for oil is finally close to outstripping supply after nearly three years of surplus production, despite growth in the overhang of unused crude, according to the International Energy Agency. The agency said oil stocks across the OECD fell by 17.2 million barrels in March. Over the first three months of the year, stocks were up by 38.5 million barrels, or 425,000 bpd, after a large increase in January.

High-Tech

Flipkart, India's leading e-commerce marketplace, announced that it has received investments totalling $1.4 billion from Microsoft, eBay and Tencent, taking the company's value to $11.6 billion.

IT & Telecom

IHS data is the estimation that chipmakers are spending a combined $200 billion a year on investments in 5G technologies. Here's How To Invest In The 5G Data Revolution.

Aviation

JetBlue has made an investment in Zunum Aero, a Kirkland, Washington, startup that hopes to have a hybrid electric airplane flying in about two years.

Travel & Tourism

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